Wagon-axle



(No Model.)

W. FI'NDBISEN.

'WAGON AXLEA. No. 355,603. Patented Jan. 4, 1887.

UNITED STATES APATENT i OFFICE,

\VILLIAM FINDEISEN, OF FERGUS FALLS, MINNESOTA.

WAGON-AXLE.

SPECIFICATION Yforming part of Letters Patent No. 355.6053, vdated January` 4, 1887.

Application filed Muy 6` 1886) Serial No. 201,345.

(No model.)

,To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FiNDEIsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ferl gus Falls, in the county of Otter Tail and State make and use the same, reference being had t' the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference `marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention consists in combining, constructing, and arranging several parts about an axle, as hereinafter described, and pointedout in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a rear view of the axle in elevation. Fig. 2 is a view in pery spective of the axle, hounds, and braces, and

Fig. 3 is a crosssection on line x x of Fig l.

In the drawings, A represents an axle provided with skeins B B, having the annular ribs or collars b b. C G are the clips which are employed to hold the skeins in place by means of end threads, nuts, and a bottom cross-plate. D D are the usual hounds, held by bolts d d to the axle and connected in front by a plate, d. These devices are already well known to the publie.

I make the clip-plates c with a median hole or groove, c', to receive the ends vof the trussrod E, whose ends are threaded and provided with nuts e. I also connect one arm of the clip C with arod, F, which is securely fastened to and under the front end of the hounds D.

This serves cffectually to preserve the hounds f rigidly in their true position with respect. to the axle. A

G G are hollow caps between the axle and truss-rod, on which the latter rests, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. Thesehaps may rest ou or be integral with the braces H H, which extend out under the hounds, and are fastened thereto, so as to assist in taking the downward strain upon them. 4

' My truss-rod answers three purposes: first, it holds the clips irnily in place, sothat they cannot slip down on the skeins or thimbles, to any of which my invention can be easily applied. It also holds the thimble and strengthens axle.

What I claim as new, and' desire to protect by Letters Patent, isy The combination, with a wooden axle, of the skeins having collars b b, the clips having vplates grooved at c', the end-threaded trussrod E, passing through said grooves, nutted on the ends and supported on rests G, and the hound-braces F, held on one arm of the clips, whereby the skeins, truss-rod, and houndo braces are all coupled with the clips, as shown and described. v

In testimony wh ereot` I affix niy signature in presence of .two witnesses.

WM. FINDEISEN. Vitnesses:

kR. O. N OBEN, C. M. KNAPP. 

